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Show PRAISES BOURKE COCKRAN. A correspondent of The, Intermountain Catholic, Cath-olic, writing from Xew York, praises Bourke Cockran for his practical interest in the work of the Paulists. He writes : , Mr. Bourke Cockran, the eloquent publicist and patriot, has just sent his check for $500 to the directors direc-tors of the Catholic Missionary union for the Catholic Mission House at Washington. Mr. Cockran's interest in -the non-Catholic mission work is of many years' standing. His wide outlook over the country and his interest in public measures has made him appreciate the advantage of a corps of eloquent missionaries, who will go about in unusual places to explain the doctrines of the Church. The work that is done in the churches is very efficient, but there is nothing: that conduces so much to progress as a systematic and organized method of getting at the churchless and the unbeliever. unbe-liever. "With, that keen appreciation of the work of the Church, Mr. Cockran readily understood the tremendous tre-mendous impulse that must be given to the cause of truth if only there could be placed in every diocese a band of able, talented and zealous missionaries, who can meet the non-Catholic anywhere and explain Catholic Cath-olic doctrine, and answer all questions from the question box. The Apostolic Mission House proposes to train priests for this work. This was the Impelling motive that urged him to give so generously. |
